Dr. Jimmy Eadie
Assistant Professor Part-Time, Electronic & Elect. Engineering
Biography
Jimmy Eadie is a practising artist-engineer, educator-researcher who works within the field of recording, production and sound design. He uses a variety of sculptural and time-based media which are often presented through extended hybrid forms of installation and performance. His award-winning work has been presented in many Irish and international galleries and venues (National Concert Hall Dublin, Cork Opera House, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh International Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Centre for Performing Arts, and the Barbican). His research outputs have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Organised Sound (Cambridge), Leonardo Journal (MIT) and in forthcoming Routledge Press, as well as many conference papers. He is a founding member of the Crash Ensemble (IRE) and worked audio engineer and technical manager for 17 years, thereafter becoming a creative partner. During his time with Crash Ensemble Jimmy worked and collaborated with many composers and artists such as: Phil Niblock, Joanna MacGregor, Steve Reich, Gavin Bryers, Terry Riley, Kevin Volans, Bang on a Can, Gerald Barry, Louis Andriessen, Nico Muhly, Bill Whelan, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Heiner Goebbels, Jennifer Walshe and many more. He has been nominated (2013) and won the Irish Times Theatre Award for best sound in 2011 and 2015. He has trained extensively with international audio companies; Meyer (USA), L'Acoustic Audio (FR) and Rational Acoustics (UK) and Screen Training Ireland (IRE). Jimmy has collaborated with artists, composers and performers from varied backgrounds, earning music and creative award nominations and much critical acclaim during this time. He has worked in notable recording studios such as Windmill Lane (IRE), Abbey Road (UK), The Church (UK) and Sterling Sound (USA). He has worked with companies such as PanPan Theatre, Rough Magic Theatre, The Abbey Theatre, Dead Centre Theatre, Daghdha Dance Company, RTÉ, The National Concert Hall, Project Arts Centre, Dublin and many other independent companies. Jimmy has toured internationally with Irish acts as engineer/producer and sound designer, working in such prestigious venues as, Carnegie Hall (USA) Royal Albert Hall, Southbank Centre (UK) Le Gran Rex (FR) and Cirque Royal (BEL). He was a professional musician with Irish band Into Paradise and released material on Chrysalis, Ensign and Setanta Records.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Embodied Aurality within Somatic Art in, editor(s)Michael Filimowicz , Designing Interactions for Music and Sound , New York, Taylor & Francis, 2022, [Jimmy Eadie]
Ragaireacht in, editor(s)Bernd Herzogenrath , Almanac of Sound Words, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2022, [Jimmy Eadie]
Jimmy Eadie, '100', Ireland, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 2021, -
Jimmy Eadie, Sounding Silence within Theatre Installation, Keeping silent, listening, speaking up: voice and silence in audience-response to arts and literature, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France, , 4-6 November, 2021
Jimmy Eadie, The Aesthetics of Turntable Art, Leonardo Music Journal, 2021
Jimmy Eadie, '100', Ireland, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 2021, -
Jimmy Eadie, Audiowalk - An Improvised Geo-Locative Installation, Organised Sound, 26, (1), 2021
Jimmy Eadie, 'The Light Gleams an Instant', New Media Festival - Wake Up Memorial, New Media Festival, Cologne, Germany, 2020, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Ice Pulse Echo', Los Angeles, USA, Contemporary Irish Arts Center Los Angeles, 2020, -
Jimmy Eadie, Sound Art~Theatre~Installation, University College Cork, 2020
Jimmy Eadie , Acetate, Impermanence and Destruction , EAI ArtsIT 2020 - 9th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation, Online, December 10-11, 2020
Jimmy Eadie, Embodied Listening: Interactivity In Theatre Installation, Fifteenth International Conference on The Arts in Society, Galway, 24-26 June, 2020
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'What is the Word', Irish Film Institute, Poetry Ireland, Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies, Dublin Theatre Festival, 2020, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan, 'Cascando', Galway International Arts Festival, 2020, -
Jimmy Eadie with PanPan, 'Cascando', Forum Freies Theater (FFT) Düsseldorf, Germany, 2020, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'The Light Gleams an Instant', 21st Century Music Practice, Research Network, Bloomsbury Academic Press , 2020, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan, 'What is The Word', Cinéma Les 3 Luxembourg, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 2020, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan, 'What is The Word', Befast, Belfast International Arts Festival at Strand Arts Centre, Cork Midsummer Festival, Poetry Ireland, , 2020, -
Jimmy Eadie with Dead Centre Theatre, 'Chekhov's First Play ', Hong Kong, Arts Festival, 2019, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'Cascando', Enniskillen, International Beckett Festival, 2019, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Damo Suzuki', Damo Suzuki Instant Compositions, Cork,Dublin, Kilkenny, , 2018, -
Jimmy Eadie with Dead Centre Theatre, 'Chekhov's First Play ', International Theatre Amsterdam, Holland , 2018, -
Jimmy Eadie with Rollers Sparkers, 'Interior Ministry', International, 2017, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'St Enda's Park 'Audiowalk'', Dublin, Office of Public Works/Pearse Museum, 2017, -
Jimmy Eadie with Dead Centre Theatre, 'Chekhov's First Play ', Battersea Arts Centre, London, 2017, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'Cascando by Samuel Beckett', Trinity College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, 2016, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'The Rehearsal', National Concert Hall, Dublin, 2016, -
Jimmy Eadie, '100', Connect Centre TCD/ Little Museum of Dublin, 2016, -
Jimmy Eadie with We Cut Corners, 'The Cadences of Others ', Dublin, 2016, -
Jimmy Eadie, '100 Radio Broadcast', International, 2016, -
Jimmy Eadie with The Jimmy Cake, 'Master Album', 2015, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Collision', Hearsay Audio Festival, 2015, -
Jimmy Eadie with Dead Centre Theatre, 'Chekhov's First Play', TnBA, Bordeaux Theatre Vidy, Lausanne, Switzerland Helsinki Festival, Finland Tbilisi International Theatre Festival, Georgia Vie Festival, Modena, Italy Alexandrinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, 2015, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream 2015 ', The Abbey Theatre Dublin, 2015, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'Quad', Samuel Beckett Theatre 11 August 2015 , Arts Council Ireland, 2015, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Wow&Flutter', 2015, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'Quad', Dublin Dance Festival , 2014, -
Jimmy Eadie with Dylan Tighe, 'Record', 2014, -
Jimmy Eadie with OKO, 'I Love You Computer Mountain', 2014, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'Embers ', Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harvey Theatre (NYC) , 2014, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Wow & Flutter', National Concert Hall, Dublin,, 2014, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Wow&Flutter', Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2014, -
Jimmy Eadie with Dudley Corporation, 'Everybody Does Everything ', 2013, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'Embers ', Edinburgh International Festival , 2013, -
Jimmy Eadie with Redivider, 'I Dig Monk', 2013, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'Embers ', Samuel Beckett Theatre, TCD, 2013, -
Jimmy Eadie with David Long, 'Water has Memory', 2013, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'Quad', Edinburgh International Festival , 2013, -
Jimmy Eadie with Mumblin Deaf Ro, 'The Harm', 2012, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pearse McGloughlin, 'In Movement', 2012, -
Jimmy Eadie with Kevin Volans, 'Trumpet Vibe Cello Piano', 2012, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'Everyone Is King Lear In His Own Home', 2012, -
Jimmy Eadie with Si Schroeder, 'Clocked', 2012, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Shift', The Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Long Room Hub, Abbey Theatre Dublin, 2011, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'All That Fall', Warwick Arts Centre, UK 17 - 20 October 2018 Lincoln Center, NY 9 - 12 November 2016 George Town Festival 6 - 7 August 2016 The Kennedy Center 19 - 21 May 2016 The Abbey Theatre 11 - 20 February 2016 , 2011, -
Jimmy Eadie with Cian Nugent , 'Doubles', 2011, -
Jimmy Eadie with We Cut Corners, 'Today I realised I could Go Home Backwards', 2011, -
Jimmy Eadie with Cois Ceim, 'Boxes', Town Hall Theatre | Galway, Ireland Pavilion Theatre | Dún Laoghaire, Ireland Backstage Theatre | Longford, Ireland Source Arts Centre | Thurles, Ireland Hawk's Well Theatre | Sligo, Ireland Garter , 2009, -
Jimmy Eadie/Brian Mooney, 'Beautiful Unit -European Son', Ireland, 2009, -
Jimmy Eadie with Valerie Francis, 'Slow Dynamo', 2009, -
Jimmy Eadie with Mail Order Messiahs , 'Plain', 2008, -
Jimmy Eadie with RSAG, 'Organic Sampler', 2008, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'The Crumb Trail', Forum Freies Theater, Düsseldorf, Germany 2008,Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival, Ireland 2009,TBA Festival, Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts, USA 2009,Aarhus Festival, Denmark 2009,PS122, NY, 2008, -
Jimmy Eadie with Jimmy Cake, 'Spectre and Crown ', 2008, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'The Idiots', 50th Dublin International Theatre Festival, Project Arts Centre, Ireland 2007, 2007, -
Jimmy Eadie with Donnacha Dennehy, 'Elastic Harminic', 2007, -
Jimmy Eadie with Dry County, 'Unexpected Falls', 2007, -
Jimmy Eadie with Messiah J and the Expert, 'When the Bull Gores the Matador ', 2006, -
Jimmy Eadie with David O Doherty , 'Giggle me Timbers', 2006, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'Oedipus Loves You ', FFT, Düsseldorf, Germany 2007 The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland 2007 Auawirleben Festival, Berne, Switzerland 2007 Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland 2007 Festival Art Carnuntum, Austria 2007 Das Schauspielh, 2006, -
Jimmy Eadie with Declan De Barra, 'Song of a Thousand Birds ', 2006, -
Jimmy Eadie with Somadrone, 'Of Pattern and Purpose ', 2006, -
Jimmy Eadie with Si Schroeder , 'Coping Mechanisms ', 2006, -
Jimmy Eadie with Somadrone, 'Fuzzing away to a Whisper ', 2005, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'One Healing with Theatre', Dublin, Ireland,, 2005, -
Jimmy Eadie with The Dublin Guitar Quartet, ' Deleted Pieces', International, 2005, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'Macbeth 7', Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland Noorderzon Theatre & Crossover Festival, Groningen, Netherlands, 2004, -
Jimmy Eadie with Kevin Volans, 'Piano Etudes', 2004, -
Jimmy Eadie with Elusive Recordings, 'Electra', 2004, -
Jimmy Eadie with Richie Egan/Jape, 'The monkeys in the zoo have more fun than me', International, 2004, -
Jimmy Eadie with David Kitt, 'Square One', International, 2003, -
Jimmy Eadie with Cois Ceim, 'When once is never enough', Project Arts Centre| Dublin, Ireland Siamsa Tire | Tralee, Ireland Black Box Theatre | Galway, Ireland Garter Lane Arts Centre | Waterford, Ireland Letterkenny, Ireland Backstage Theatre | Longford, I, 2002, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Ick', Dublin, Ireland, International, 2002, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Haiku ', The Crash Ensemble, The Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2001, -
Jimmy Eadie with Deirdre Mulroney/Neasa Hardiman, 'Shesawhore', Project Arts, Dublin, 2001, -
Jimmy Eadie, The Issue of Acoustics in the Recording and Reproduction of Film Sound, Trinity College Dublin, 1999
Jimmy Eadie with Rough Magic, 'Boomtown', Dublin Theatre Festival, 1999, 1999, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly', Elektron Musik Festivalen, Sweden, 1999, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'RGB', 1999, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Ice IV', ICE IV - Passive Implementation, International, 1998, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Amusement', Amusement...and after optimism, Dublin,Ireland, Dirt Records, 1996, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Zip up your Boots for the Showbands - Knee-Jerk Records ', 1996, -
Jimmy Eadie with Pan Pan Theatre, 'A Bronze Twist of your Serpents Muscle', Newry & Mourne Arts Centre, Newry, Northern Ireland The Playhouse, Derry, Northern Ireland The Town Hall, Omagh, Northern Ireland Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland St John's Ar, 1995, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'For No One', Setanta Records, 1993, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Down All The Days', Setanta Records, 1992, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Churchtown', Chrysalis Music, 1991, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Under The Water', Chrysalis Music/Ensign Records/Setanta, 1990, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Blue Light', Setanta - SET 002, 1989, -
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Jimmy Eadie, 'Ice Pulse Echo', Online, Medium.com, 2020, -
Jimmy Eadie , Artistic Research PhDs: Process, Experience And Ideas, Visioning the Future, Online, 22nd September, 2020
Jimmy Eadie, 'Mille Plateaux', Re-Vision Performing Arts Festival, Ireland, 2020, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'One (') Silence (From) John Cage', Re-Vision Performing Arts Festival, Ireland, 2020, -
Jimmy Eadie, Jimmy Eadie, TCD Seminars GBHI Fellows Invited Talk Global Brain Health Institute, Concepts of creativity for brain health, Trinity College Dublin online, 18th September, 2020
Jimmy Eadie, Sound Art , TCD Seminars GBHI Fellows, Online, June 5th, 2020, Global Brain Health Institute
Bates, Enda; Eadie, Jimmy; Kang, Ji Youn; Mulvey, Gráinne; Dowling, Fergal; Nealon, Alexis, Workshop on Spatial Audio for Contemporary Music and Theatre, AES 146th Convention, Dublin, Ireland, March 2019, 2019, Audio Engineering Society, Dublin, Dublin, March, 2019, AES
Jimmy Eadie, 'Ninesixonesix', Spotify: ITunes: Amazon: Tidal:Apple Music:Google Play, 2019, -
Jimmy Eadie, Sound Design for Performance, LIR National Centre for Dramatic Arts, March, 2017, Loughlin Deegan
Jimmy Eadie, 'Morton, John and Me...', Trinity College Dublin, 2017, -
Jimmy Eadie, 'Souvenir', Trinity College Dublin, 2016, -
Jimmy Eadie, Gavin Quinn, Aedin Cosgrove, Cascando, , Beckett Summer School, Samuel Beckett Theatre Dublin, 20 July, 2016, Nicholas Johnson
Jimmy Eadie, Gavin Quinn, Behind all That Fall, Beckett Summer School, Arts Technology Research Lab, 17/6/12, 2012, Nicholas Johnson
Research Expertise
Recognition
Representations
Peer Reviewer: 21ST CENTURY MUSIC PRACTICE Research Network
Committee Member: Audio Engineering Society (AES), Co-Chair Workshop and Tutorials
Interview Panel: Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT)
Awards and Honours
Arts Council of Ireland Bursary
Professional Development Award, Arts Council
Teaching Excellence Award Trinity (Nomination)
Office of Public Works - Arts Grant
Best in Sound Irish Times Theatre Awards
Trinity Creative Challenge for Cascando w/Pan Pan Theatre
The Visual & Performing Arts Fund TCD
The Visual & Performing Arts Fund TCD
Arts Council of Ireland Bursary
Arts Council Project Award
Arts Council Project Award
Arts Council Project Award
Arts Council Travel Award
Dublin City Council Arts Award
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council -Arts Grant
South Dublin County Council - Bursary
Best Overall Production Edinburgh Festival for Embers w/PanPan
Best in Sound Irish Times Theatre Awards
Memberships
Audio Engineering Society
The Teaching Council of Ireland
Irish Music Rights Organisation
The Spatial Music Collective